AN Islamic cleric has said that young Muslim men are feeling persecuted because their religion is being “unfairly linked” with terrorism.
Mohammed Joynal Uddin, from the West Euston Partnership, said on Tuesday: “The media calls the people who did this Islamic terrorists. I don’t know where the word terrorist can be found in Islam.
“You won’t find it because Islam isn’t about terrorism. These people are terrorists, not Islamic terrorists. Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. When the IRA were bombing, the media did not call them Catholic terrorists.”
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He added: “Young muslims are told that Islam is behind terrorism. It is wrong. It puts the idea in their head.”
Moshaid Miah, a teacher at the Kentish Town mosque in Weedington Road, last week splattered with red paint by race hate vandals, said that young Muslims had no voice in central government. He said: “The community is close in Camden and the local government has done its best to involve the Muslim community in what it does. But the problem is still with central government. There is no voice for them in central government. They may listen to national Muslim associations but they too do not ask us what we are thinking.
“The National Muslim Council is at Downing Street today but they didn’t tell us they were going. We had to hear it on the radio. They say they are taking our voice there but they haven’t asked any Muslims in Camden what we think.”